The Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, which sponsors a chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the most prominent national literary honor society that recognizes students’ achievements in literary studies, inducted new members on April 26, 2019. Professor Gary Richards, Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication and campus sponsor for Sigma Tau Delta. […]
Antonio Barrenechea, Professor of English, took his students on a trip to the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA. The excursion was funded by a competitive UMW grant, and was part of the spring 2019 ENGL 394A course, “The Groovy Gothic.” The course explores the intersection of sensational nineteenth-century gothic fiction (Shelley, Stoker, and […]
Four Communication and Digital Studies majors, Emma Baumgardner, Meaghan McIntyre, Anna Rinko, and Jamie McGuire, working under the direction of Dr. Elizabeth Johnson-Young, presented on the panel “The Digital Communication of Gender: Exploring Pressing Issues and New Platforms of Communicating Gender Research” at the Virginia Association of Communication Arts & Sciences (VACAS) Conference being […]
Congratulations to Salem Smith, Sarah Stephen, and Ronan Goforth! The winners of 2018 UMW Writing Contest were announced last week and included: Salem Smith for “Rehumanizing Antoinette Cosway,” written for Professor Shumona Dasgupta’s ENGL 206AJ1: Global Issues in Literature in the category of Arts and Humanities (Freshmen and Sophomores); Sarah Stephen “What Do the Women […]
The 2019 Undergraduate Research Forum on Women’s and Gender Studies was held Wednesday, March 13, 2019, and the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication was a key part of the event. Professor Kate Haffey organized the program, and Professor Adria Goldman served as a discussant and judge. The runner-up for the best over-all presentation went […]